Category: Web3
Blockchains, DeFi, stablecoins, DAOs and the decentralized internet.
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Crypto’s biggest super PAC is putting $30 million into beating one senator
Fairshake’s return to the exact Ohio race it won in 2024 suggests the industry now treats election spending, not the Senate floor, as its…
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Coinbase is now where retail traders go to buy into an IPO before it prices
Smart-ring maker Oura is the first name through a new Coinbase channel that puts ordinary customers in line for shares that used to stay…
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Saudi Arabia left China’s cross-border payment platform sixteen months before anyone said so
SAMA’s quiet exit from mBridge only became public through a Financial Times report, in a system built explicitly as an alternative to dollar-based settlement.
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The ECB built a settlement rail for tokenised assets, and five institutions are already on it
Pontes lets banks settle tokenised trades in actual central bank money, a step ahead of the digital euro itself and a sign of where…
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Coinbase just got a shortcut into more than 3,000 small American banks
A white-label deal with Stablecore lets community banks offer crypto trading under their own name, and Coinbase’s stock jumped 5.75 percent on the news.
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Solana now updates 17 percent faster and moves the same number of transactions
Cutting slot time to 250 milliseconds shrank each block by the same proportion it sped them up, so the network’s real capacity did not…
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Visa is closing the loophole that paid people to buy meme coins
A merchant code meant for e-books let Robinhood Wallet and Fomo users earn cash back on crypto, until a bank noticed and flagged it…
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The CFTC filed its own crypto rulebook two days after the Senate killed one
A prerule filing gets ten working days of White House review instead of ninety, and the agency’s only sitting commissioner is the one running…
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A single stolen key let one attacker drain three linked crypto projects
SingularityNET, Fetch.ai and NuNet share enough bridge and minting infrastructure that one compromised signature reached all three within half an hour.
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Aave built a lending market around a stablecoin that only launched this month
Institutions can now borrow against tokenised assets on Avalanche, using a Tether coin with no track record as the money on the other side.